I already got that feature about a month ago, and it is AWESOME! I hit channel up, and the entire commercial break is gone. The only caveat is that you have to wait at least a minute or so after the program has ended for the skip icon to appear in the list, showing that you can use the skip feature. You also cannot catch up to a live recording with the auto-commercial skip. Some channels do not get the feature at all, but they have been adding stations regularly. A "Special News Report" that interrupts a show sometimes breaks the auto-skip.
All that being said, most of what I watch has autoskip available, and it has really been bulletproof. It's the feature I have been wanting for 15 years, starting when I bought my first tivo, and they got it dead right.
Go here:
http://ultimateoutsider.com/downloads/ and download the GWX Control Panel. That will remove it as well as the downloaded install files. Not my code, but it worked for me.
I have a call blocker installed at home, and it is awesome. When someone calls from a blocked number or a "Private" or "No Info" number, my house phones never even ring.
The only problem is that it commonly blocks known good callers if the phone company doesn't display the caller ID info fast enough. It keeps me from calling the house from my cell on a fairly regular basis. No bid deal, just redial. I have had complaints from several family members that it keeps dropping their calls, but that is a small price to pay to be able to watch an entire movie without someone interrupting me to try and sell me something via cold call.
Mine is whitelist capable, but that's too restrictive for me. I don't know what number my pharmacy will be calling from to confirm a prescription and I don't want to maintain that growing list of numbers. During the last election cycle I got 1-2 calls a night for about 2 days. By then all the major call centers had been blocked and I stopped getting harassed by pollsters and politicians. I even have a few entire prefixes blocked out due to high spam calls coming from that area code. My only complaint is that it is too easy to accidentally add a good number to the blacklist. I've added myself a couple of times. Easy enough to fix, though.
The only downside is that if you enable blocking of no caller ID, Unknown, 000-000-0000, etc, it will block legit calls if the caller ID doesn't show up fast enough. I LOVE mine. I was getting 2-3 calls per night with 5ish more per day on the machine. This stopped them. All of them. If one gets through, I push the big red button and it hangs up and adds them to the block list.
IMNSHO,
Chapter breaks allow for a reader to be able to step away from the novel knowing they haven't left a cliffhanger on the next page. Think of it like a scene change in a movie. I can't stand just picking some random place to stop reading a book because I have to go. If I decide to quit reading in the middle of a chapter, I check to see how much is left. If it is just a page or two more, I'll finish the chapter.
Paragraph breaks let my brain codify smaller chunks of data for parsing more efficiently than long run-on paragraphs. It just works better.
When I was much younger, I left an electric range on warm for days. I never noticed until I set a box of rice krispy treats on the warming burner and left them for hours. It was a small apartment and counter space was a premium. I often stored flat things on the range to save space. Needless to say, I don't do that anymore. Since then, I've always had a certain paranoia about leaving the range on. Now I have gas, so no worries.
1. Buy a new phone.
2. Get a new sim with your current number on it.
3. Restore last backup to new phone.
4. Profit!
I know all the important numbers I usually call since Siri's name recognition isn't really reliable enough to use. I usually just dial by saying "dial 555-7654"
At college in '93 someone in the computer science building connected the Coke machine to the net. You could telnet in and get the current temp with an ascii art representation of how many cans were loaded in each slot. Totally useless, but totally awesome. I had it programmed into TinyFugue so I could check and see if the Dr Pepper slot was full at 3 AM just by hitting F8 when I was mudding in the lab on Muddog. And now I feel old.
While I don't NEED my stove to be internet aware and firmware upgradeable, it would be cool if it could be polled to check the burner status or if it sent me an alert if it had been on for longer than is sane so I don't burn my house down. The market can dictate what is and isn't useful. I doubt you'll see too many connected blenders. I guess we'll see!
My 78 year old boss's AOL account was hacked a few weeks ago. It started receiving 40-50 undeliverable returns every 4-5 hours in batches. I know it was using a strong password because I set it myself a few weeks before that. I was able to use the obvious breach as a way to finally get the AOL account turned off. Believe it or not, he was still paying 24.95 a month for AOL access. Nevermind the fact that we run our own email server and I can point an alias anywhere he wishes. I think for him it was like an old friend. Forget that all the people he corresponds with use his new account and he's just looking in from time to time to sift through the spam. He knew he hadn't used the account in years, but he'd had it since he'd had a personal computer. Sometimes it's hard for people to just let go.
Personally, I've had too many email addresses to get attached to one.
Boat keels are usually made of lead. In order to counter the weight above CG, massive amounts of weight are added to the keel as low as possible. Sailboats use more lead per foot than powerboats but powerboats and vessels such as barges are absolutely massive. Boats are basically massive Weeble Wobbles. http://www.ebay.com/bhp/weeble-wobbles/
Being at the lowest part of the vessel and constantly in the water, keels are prone to blistering, leaching, and sometimes they just fall off. All this is just left in the sea. The other amazing thing is the amount of copper these boats go through. Most bottom paints are 50-75% copper. All the copper is leached out in about 2 years in southern climes, 5 years in northern. Most 35' sailboats take 1.5 - 2 gallons per bottom. That's 30 lbs of copper per sailboat every two years. Gone. Wow. A typical boat also eats about 5 pounds of zinc a year in sacrificial anodes, but zinc is cheap, so who cares.
It's not remote-erase that we're talking about. It's remote-brick. Make it useless. Of course there will always be a market for second-hand screens, but the primary value is the motherboard, which if it becomes worthless makes it less likely that they will steal your phone in the first place.
Wait a minute... the food was supposed to go IN the green bag?! That would explain a LOT. The way the instructions read (past tense) to me, both the heater, water bag, and the food were supposed to be in the box together, but not all in the bag. Based on the sizes of the pouches I guess I assumed too much. Obviously you could bend the sides over to make it fit, but I just didn't think you were supposed to. Hopefully I will never have a reason to try the heat packs out again! It is nice to know though. Thanks
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Naw, a rolling drone gathers no moss.
I already got that feature about a month ago, and it is AWESOME! I hit channel up, and the entire commercial break is gone. The only caveat is that you have to wait at least a minute or so after the program has ended for the skip icon to appear in the list, showing that you can use the skip feature. You also cannot catch up to a live recording with the auto-commercial skip. Some channels do not get the feature at all, but they have been adding stations regularly. A "Special News Report" that interrupts a show sometimes breaks the auto-skip.
All that being said, most of what I watch has autoskip available, and it has really been bulletproof. It's the feature I have been wanting for 15 years, starting when I bought my first tivo, and they got it dead right.
http://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/robotics/drones/camera-drone-could-be-a-robot-command-center Corrected link.
Rotsa Ruck!
You know what? You're right. I do hope they hang tough.
The cynic in me thinks that rather than call their congressman, Californians would be calling Apple demanding a phone that was legal in their state.
Go here:
http://ultimateoutsider.com/downloads/ and download the GWX Control Panel. That will remove it as well as the downloaded install files. Not my code, but it worked for me.
I have a call blocker installed at home, and it is awesome. When someone calls from a blocked number or a "Private" or "No Info" number, my house phones never even ring.
The only problem is that it commonly blocks known good callers if the phone company doesn't display the caller ID info fast enough. It keeps me from calling the house from my cell on a fairly regular basis. No bid deal, just redial. I have had complaints from several family members that it keeps dropping their calls, but that is a small price to pay to be able to watch an entire movie without someone interrupting me to try and sell me something via cold call.
I always wondered, according to the sites that required a birth date be filled in, what percentage of the world's population was born on January 1st?
I'd love to see this get popular!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK5TQSKmS3o Chess Boxing!
... Me scurries off to investigate. Thanks!
If this fixes the disk io issues I'm buying 5. On a B+, copying data to a HDD slaved to it is painfully slow. Like 10Mb slow.
Mine is whitelist capable, but that's too restrictive for me. I don't know what number my pharmacy will be calling from to confirm a prescription and I don't want to maintain that growing list of numbers. During the last election cycle I got 1-2 calls a night for about 2 days. By then all the major call centers had been blocked and I stopped getting harassed by pollsters and politicians. I even have a few entire prefixes blocked out due to high spam calls coming from that area code. My only complaint is that it is too easy to accidentally add a good number to the blacklist. I've added myself a couple of times. Easy enough to fix, though.
Get one of these:
http://www.amazon.com/PRO-Call-Blocker-Incoming-Telephone/dp/B00AZ43MGU/ref=pd_sim_e_3?ie=UTF8&refRID=1J6JDGKBWXFNN580TVKM
The only downside is that if you enable blocking of no caller ID, Unknown, 000-000-0000, etc, it will block legit calls if the caller ID doesn't show up fast enough. I LOVE mine. I was getting 2-3 calls per night with 5ish more per day on the machine. This stopped them. All of them. If one gets through, I push the big red button and it hangs up and adds them to the block list.
IMNSHO,
Chapter breaks allow for a reader to be able to step away from the novel knowing they haven't left a cliffhanger on the next page. Think of it like a scene change in a movie. I can't stand just picking some random place to stop reading a book because I have to go. If I decide to quit reading in the middle of a chapter, I check to see how much is left. If it is just a page or two more, I'll finish the chapter.
Paragraph breaks let my brain codify smaller chunks of data for parsing more efficiently than long run-on paragraphs. It just works better.
And if it's close enough Bernoulli's Principle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernoulli's_principle will pull the panel toward the roof, making the whole thing more stable.
When I was much younger, I left an electric range on warm for days. I never noticed until I set a box of rice krispy treats on the warming burner and left them for hours. It was a small apartment and counter space was a premium. I often stored flat things on the range to save space. Needless to say, I don't do that anymore. Since then, I've always had a certain paranoia about leaving the range on. Now I have gas, so no worries.
1. Buy a new phone.
2. Get a new sim with your current number on it.
3. Restore last backup to new phone.
4. Profit!
I know all the important numbers I usually call since Siri's name recognition isn't really reliable enough to use. I usually just dial by saying "dial 555-7654"
At college in '93 someone in the computer science building connected the Coke machine to the net. You could telnet in and get the current temp with an ascii art representation of how many cans were loaded in each slot. Totally useless, but totally awesome. I had it programmed into TinyFugue so I could check and see if the Dr Pepper slot was full at 3 AM just by hitting F8 when I was mudding in the lab on Muddog. And now I feel old.
While I don't NEED my stove to be internet aware and firmware upgradeable, it would be cool if it could be polled to check the burner status or if it sent me an alert if it had been on for longer than is sane so I don't burn my house down. The market can dictate what is and isn't useful. I doubt you'll see too many connected blenders. I guess we'll see!
Count the zero's?
It wouldn't be able to come to a stop without melting down. Ever. ;)
My 78 year old boss's AOL account was hacked a few weeks ago. It started receiving 40-50 undeliverable returns every 4-5 hours in batches. I know it was using a strong password because I set it myself a few weeks before that. I was able to use the obvious breach as a way to finally get the AOL account turned off. Believe it or not, he was still paying 24.95 a month for AOL access. Nevermind the fact that we run our own email server and I can point an alias anywhere he wishes. I think for him it was like an old friend. Forget that all the people he corresponds with use his new account and he's just looking in from time to time to sift through the spam. He knew he hadn't used the account in years, but he'd had it since he'd had a personal computer. Sometimes it's hard for people to just let go.
Personally, I've had too many email addresses to get attached to one.
Boat keels are usually made of lead. In order to counter the weight above CG, massive amounts of weight are added to the keel as low as possible. Sailboats use more lead per foot than powerboats but powerboats and vessels such as barges are absolutely massive. Boats are basically massive Weeble Wobbles. http://www.ebay.com/bhp/weeble-wobbles/
Being at the lowest part of the vessel and constantly in the water, keels are prone to blistering, leaching, and sometimes they just fall off. All this is just left in the sea. The other amazing thing is the amount of copper these boats go through. Most bottom paints are 50-75% copper. All the copper is leached out in about 2 years in southern climes, 5 years in northern. Most 35' sailboats take 1.5 - 2 gallons per bottom. That's 30 lbs of copper per sailboat every two years. Gone. Wow. A typical boat also eats about 5 pounds of zinc a year in sacrificial anodes, but zinc is cheap, so who cares.
It's not remote-erase that we're talking about. It's remote-brick. Make it useless. Of course there will always be a market for second-hand screens, but the primary value is the motherboard, which if it becomes worthless makes it less likely that they will steal your phone in the first place.
Wait a minute... the food was supposed to go IN the green bag?! That would explain a LOT. The way the instructions read (past tense) to me, both the heater, water bag, and the food were supposed to be in the box together, but not all in the bag. Based on the sizes of the pouches I guess I assumed too much. Obviously you could bend the sides over to make it fit, but I just didn't think you were supposed to. Hopefully I will never have a reason to try the heat packs out again! It is nice to know though. Thanks
Sounds like you have a leak in your vacuum line and the air valves aren't fully closing.